Implementing the TCA Action Agenda

The TCA Action Agenda was built with the wisdom and participation of a broad, diverse community. Its implementation must be equally collaborative. Implementation strategies will vary between different contexts, ensuring alignment with local priorities and capacity. Achieving the ambition of dramatically mainstreaming TCA by 2030 requires coordinated contributions from practitioners, researchers, policymakers, business leaders, civil society, and funders — each bringing their unique skill sets in complementary ways. 

The TCA Community

The TCA community is at the heart of implementation. Every organization and individual has a role to play — applying, testing, and communicating TCA in contexts that reflect their mandates, audiences, and regions. Many actions in this plan depend on locally adapted approaches and collaborations across geographies and sectors.

Community members are encouraged to lead actions that are most relevant to their work while staying connected to the movement through shared learning, dialogue exchange, and alignment. Those wishing to contribute to specific action areas can contact the TCA Accelerator to be connected with partners and working groups.

Together, community members will: 

• Co-design and implement action-area projects.
• Share lessons and tools to accelerate learning.
• Build bridges across disciplines and regions.
• Identify and fill knowledge or practice gaps that slow progress.

Funders

Philanthropic partners are indispensable to realizing this shared vision. The Action Agenda reflects the community’s collective assessment of the most strategic opportunities to embed TCA in decision-making across public and private sectors. Achieving these outcomes will require sustained and coordinated funding.

Funders can catalyze change by: 

• Supporting organizations that are leading and contributing to specific actions.
• Investing in cross-cutting efforts that strengthen the TCA ecosystem.
• Encouraging collaboration and shared learning among grantees.
• Partnering with the TCA Accelerator and community to develop funding mechanisms that match innovative ideas with resources.
• By supporting this collaborative approach, funders help shift global decision-making toward systems that fully account for impacts on people, nature, and society.

The TCA Accelerator

The TCA Accelerator serves as a steward and connector of the Action Agenda. While it cannot implement all actions alone, it enables the ecosystem to thrive — providing coordination, strategic alignment, and progress tracking. Its role is to support and amplify the community, ensure coherence across efforts, and advance initiatives that fill gaps or benefit the field as a whole.

Specifically, the TCA Accelerator will: 

• Steward implementation by monitoring commitments and progress, convening partners, and helping maintain alignment across the Action Agenda.
• Strengthen collaboration by connecting actors working on complementary efforts, facilitating working groups, and promoting shared learning across regions and sectors.
• Advance community-wide priorities by leading initiatives that no single organization can take on alone, such as establishing shared principles, amplifying case studies, building awareness, and fostering convergence in methods and messaging.
• Mobilize resources by working with funders and community partners to develop mechanisms that match promising ideas and implementers with funding opportunities.
• The TCA Accelerator will help sustain momentum, uphold a shared sense of purpose, and maintain visibility for TCA as a transformative framework for decision-making.